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Policy on third- guidelines on student discipline resonate in durham semester study away changes by Jenna Zhang The ChroniCle

The obama administration’s recently released guidelines for school discipline garnered praise from education experts and local officials. The guidelines urge schools to create “positive climates” that focus on preventing misbehavior, reducing the number of suspension days and ensuring that school discipline is applied fairly. “This work is timely for our community,” said William Sudderth, Durham Public Schools director of public information. “The emphasis on improving school climate, promoting positive behavior, setting clear and consistent expectations and treating all students equitably are all in line with our efforts to reduce suspension rates, particularly among African-American males and students with disabilities.” The guidelines are intended to address the high number of suspensions in recent school years, which disproportionately affect black and minority students and students with disabilities. During the 2011-12 school year, black students—who make up approximately 26 percent of the total north Carolina student population—accounted for 56.8

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Students in the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences no longer have to declare a major before studying away in their third semester. Before this policy change, any student who wished to study abroad needed to have already declared a major. Administrators said that they have decided to eliminate this rule, as there is academic value to studying abroad before declaring a major. “By the end of freshman year, a student could have a passion that is best served by studying abroad in Brazil the next year,” said Steve nowicki, dean and vice provost for undergraduate education. “But it could also be much later that they study abroad.” Amanda Kelso, executive director of the Global education for Undergraduates, also said that the college does not want to be an obstacle to students at a time when they are still shaping their academic goals. “imagine the inspiration of a third semester spent with the Duke in new York program and how that might shape your academic trajectory for the rest of your Duke career and beyond,” Kelso said. “We don’t want the specter of an early major-declaration to hold you back.” Kelso added that practically speaking, sophomores who study away in their third semester at Duke still have enough time to meet with advisers before declaring their major in their fourth semester. She noted that students who plan to study away in their fourth semester are still required to declare a major before they leave. lee Baker, dean of academic affairs and associate vice provost for undergraduate education, said that studying away as a third semester student is likely to impact a student’s major declaration. he noted that the idea to change the rule came initially from faculty See STUDY ABROAD, page 6

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Michael allen spills on politics of national security by Ya Fang

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The creation of the role of the Director of national intelligence was the most important governmental reform since World War ii, said Michael Allen, former staff director of the house intelligence committee. Allen spoke with students and professors about his book, “Blinking red: Crisis and Compromise in American intelligence After 9/11,” which is about the complicated history of efforts to reform America’s national security after the intelligence failures related to the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. he analyzed the history of the 9/11 Commission’s recom-

mendation to create the Dni position and how the new post has impacted national security. The event Tuesday was the first of the Spring American Grand Strategy talks. “The creation of the Dni was the most tangible act that Congress and the president took in terms of restructuring the U.S. intelligence community after the Sept. 11 and iraq attacks,” Allen said. Allen worked for the White house and Congress as a liaison to the United States intelligence community, said lt. Col. Paul Darling, a counterterrorism and public policy fellow, in his introduction. “Blinking red” tracks the history of how

the role of the Dni was created in four and a half months. “in 2004, Congress decided to create a Director of national intelligence, a super-empowered individual who would in theory be able to manage across all of the intelligence agencies in the intelligence community,” Allen said. The intelligence reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 was passed for several reasons—the looming presidential election, the 9/11 attacks and fear of weapons of mass destruction in iraq, Allen said. See ALLEN, page 6

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This semester, 10 students from the Duke School of law are getting hands-on practice with the rule of law by working to develop arguments for the defense of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, alleged to be one of the key figures behind the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. After being detained for nearly 11 years, Mohammed will face the death penalty if he is convicted before the military commission at Guantanamo Bay. Professor of law Madeline Morris and lecturing fellow Gabriela McQuade, law ‘10, are leading the students through the Guantanamo Defense Clinic. Members of the class work to research legal issues involved in the cases of Guantanamo prisoners and write briefs, motions and other documents for the defense team. “The students get a view of the law and the process of lawmaking and law application that they would not otherwise get,” Morris said. The clinic was first introduced as a law School class in october 2005. At that time, Morris was looking to teach a law school class relating to key current legal issues. She reached out to Colonel Dwight Sullivan, who was serving as chief defense counsel for the office of Military Commissions, which handles the defense of those who are tried in the military commissions system at Guantanamo Bay. The office was under-resourced and welcomed the possibility of help from law school students. “i met with him in early october, and he wanted to know if there was any way we could start then, rather than in the following semester as i had proposed,” Morris explained. “What we did actually, unprecedentedly, was to begin a course in the middle of the semester.” Since then, Morris’ class has played a part

in the defense of Guantanamo detainees such as omar Khadr—who was just 15 at the time of his detention—and Muhammad Al nashiri, one of the principle architects of the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole, Morris said. Students from the course have also been sent to observe military commission proceedings in person at Guantanamo Bay.

else in our system has,” said Julie Coleman a third-year law student who participated in the Clinic last year. Morris said that Duke law School was the first law school to work with the defense counsel at Guantanamo and that very few other law schools, if any, have similar programs.

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“i have a tremendous amount of respect for [the lawyers in the case] because as lawyers and citizens of the country they really believe in the rule of law and the right to a fair trial and are advocating on behalf of their clients for those rights that everyone

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“Duke law School was the first school, i believe, to provide this form of assistance, in the form of a clinic program, to the Chief Defense Counsel,” Morris said. The first case Morris and her students worked on was hamdan v. rumsfeld, which

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eventually went to the Supreme Court. Danny Beaulieu, a second year law student and current member of the class, said arguments from the clinic were cited in the Supreme Court briefs for the hamdan case. “it was definitely surreal to sit in on the most important trials that we’ll see in our time. And for me personally being involved in the clinic and going down and observing the trials had a huge impact,” Coleman said. As a result of their work, the clinic has been granted observer status by the office of Military Commissions, which allows students from the clinic to go to Guantanamo every semester and observe commission proceedings. “To a person, every student that has the opportunity to go has found that quite eyeopening. Watching that process and engaging in the discussions that happen in the margins allows students to have an insight that otherwise wouldn’t be possible,” Morris said. Part of the challenge presented to the defense teams as well as the clinic students was that the law applicable to military commissions was almost completely nonexistent a few years ago and is still being developed, she noted. “The law is wide open in this area,” Morris said. “There’s just not very much law there and what law there is tends to be flawed because it’s so rarely used. You can count on one hand the number of times we’ve used military commissions so the law is not well developed.” McQuade said the class accumulates a significant institutional memory with regards to these novel legal issues. This can often be helpful for the military attorneys working on the cases, since turnover in the office of Military Commissions is high, she said. “it’s primarily military officers who are See GUANTANAMO, page 12

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DSG Judiciary reaches verdict on Daniel Strunk v. DSG case by Carleigh Steihm The Chronicle

Duke Student Government must now accept electronic signatures on petitions in addition to hard copies. Late Tuesday morning, the DSG Judiciary unveiled its ruling on the case of Daniel Strunk v. DSG—formerly known as The $100 Plan v. DSG. The announcement came nearly 14 hours after the Judiciary first convened to hear the case Monday night. The case centered around the burden placed on students when they wish to have a referendum question placed on an election ballot. Senior Daniel Strunk acted as the petitioner in the case, thus recusing himself from the role of chief justice of DSG. In a four-part decision, the Judiciary established that students do in fact have the right to referendum, found that DSG must accept electronic signatures, recognized multiple ways in which a student’s signature can be verified and upheld DSG’s threeweek submission timeline. “[The ruling] establishes an important standard that students cannot be unreasonably burdened when seeking to petition the government via referendum,” Strunk said. “This helps promote student involvement in the government and increases the likelihood that referendums will take place.” He added that he was “very pleased” with the results of the case. “It is a victory for students under the Bill of Rights,” Strunk said. Of the six justices that heard the case, four constituted the majority opinion. Justice Joseph Denton, a sophomore, and Justice Catherine Fei, a freshman, both disagreed with the ruling. “A disturbing precedent has been set today. Essentially, the Judiciary is acting as a

legislative body. This is both irresponsible and detrimental to governance,” their dissent read. Under previous DSG bylaws, any individual or group who wishes to have a referendum question placed on an election ballot must either obtain the approval of two-thirds of the Senate or obtain the sig-

Attorney General at least three weeks before the election. “The bylaws are about the specifics,” Strunk said. “I am saying those bylaws are unconstitutional because they violate the rights that the student body has...The constitution is superior to the bylaws.” Strunk argued that regulations put in

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Hours after the DSG Judiciary convened to hear the Daniel Strunk v. DSG case, a verdict was reached regarding electronic signatures on petitions.

natures of 15 percent of the undergraduate student body. The latter option of which stipulates that signatures must be collected with each signer’s printed name, signature and their telephone number. Additionally, the petition must be submitted to the DSG

place by these bylaws infringe on student rights as established by the DSG Constitution and Bill of Rights—including the right to petition DSG. In the petitioner’s argument, 40 Percent Plan argued that DSG can only burden the

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execution of a fundamental right—such as the right to petition—if it passes an explicit test for strict scrutiny as established by the case Dinner and Wang v. Board of Elections. DSG Executive Vice President Nikolai Doytchinov, a junior, and DSG Attorney General Syed Adil, a sophomore, represented the respondent. Doytchinov argued that DSG is within its rights to require these stipulations to have a referendum question placed on an election ballot because they need to be able to validate all of the signatures collected. “In my memory, there has not been a single referendum initiated by petition,” Doytchinov said. When asked if this pointed to evidence that the process to initiate a referendum by petition was unduly burdensome, Doytchinov said he respectfully disagreed. “It is actually quite plausible that Duke students simply haven’t gotten particularly riled up about any constitutional DSG issues,” he said. “The DSG Constitution is mostly a document of internal rules and procedures.” The 40 Percent Plan is a petition to allow students to designate where they would like to allocate 40 percent of their student activities fee each semester. Currently, the approximately $120 fee per semester is entirely given to the Student Organization Funding Committee to fund student groups as they see fit. Strunk said that The 40 Percent Plan was prompted to file the case after they began collecting signatures for their petition electronically, but were informed that their method of collection was invalid. This is the first case in which DSG as a See DSG, page 6

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Lunch food trucks on hold due to low traffic and fire safety by Sasha Zients The ChroniCle

Food trucks are not currently on the dining schedule for this semester due to ongoing negotiations for a new location. “Due to the lack of business, we only have two food trucks that might still be interested in being on campus for lunch,” Director of Dining Services robert Coffey wrote in an email Monday. Coffey noted that dining services has been in contact with Duke University occupational and environmental Safety office. The concern that both departments share is that last semester, food trucks were stationed in the fire lane of Telecom Circle, which poses a potential safety hazard. “They had bad numbers to start,” said senior Chris Taylor, co-director of Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee. “With it being winter, food trucks don’t do as well when it’s cold out for obvious reasons.” Coffey said he would release more information when decisions are made but a timeline is still undetermined. Taylor said that DUSDAC has thus far not been included in discussions about the future of lunch food trucks. he noted the challenge of balancing the interests of all involved. Taylor said that DUSDAC is committed to keeping the food trucks on campus for lunch. he said that since the West Union is closed this semester and several hundred students have returned from studying abroad, DUSDAC expects an increase in demand for food trucks as an option at lunchtime. “We’re going to try to get a new spot, better advertising and trying out different trucks,” Taylor said.

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working on Duke Kunshan University, who emphasized that students might change their academic trajectory after studying away at the Kunshan campus. Baker said that the process for studying abroad pre-declaration would involve the premajor advising system. He did, however, note that students considering certain majors that would need to do more thinking before going abroad. Baker mentioned neuroscience and global health as examples of departments that a student would want to consult before choosing to study away in the third semester, as they have prerequisites that are “more complex.” Nowicki noted that the intent behind the policy change is to give students more flexibility in how they are putting parts of their education together. He said that Duke students are too frequently determining their academic paths based on what they think they should do and what they see other students doing. “For example, the average student thinks that you study abroad in the fall of junior year,” Nowicki said. He noted that although this norm is rooted in the timing of basketball season, an interest in being around for basketball season only applies to about a sixth of undergraduates. In response to this notion, Nowicki said it is important for students to think about the arc of their educations over the four years and to decide for themselves when to fit in various academic opportunities. Nowicki said that changing the major declaration rule was not an overly complex process. Both Nowicki and Baker noted that many faculty members agreed that it made sense to give sophomores the new option. “This change just sort of lowers another hurdle,” Baker said. “It’s less bureaucratic and more empowering.”

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whole was the respondent since the 2010 case of Bergmann, Robinette v. DSG— in which the court made two rulings regarding DSG election procedure. In that case, the Judiciary found that the BOE had the authority to extend or push back the date of an election. It also found that the BOE had the ability to accept additional candidates for a campaign even after campaigning has already started.

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Both the Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency opposed the idea of the DNI, Allen said. He noted that the political struggle hinders the DNI’s ability to enact substantial changes. “Personally, as an army officer, I’m going to be going to Washington, D.C. and I’m going to be dealing with the executive and legislative sides so his insight is really good,” Darling said. “He has a wealth of knowledge on both sides.” In addition to hearing the material covered in “Blinking Red,” students had an opportunity to ask the author questions about other topics such as Jim Clapper’s “untruth” in Congress regarding NSA monitoring of American citizens, changes in the National Clandestine Service and the facts behind the movie “Zero Dark Thirty.” Peter Feaver, professor of political science and director of the American Grand Strategy program, noted that hearing speakers with real-world experience such as Allen can be a better learning experience than traditional academic studies. “Reading articles is important, but someArthur Allen/The washington post times just getting to talk to the speaker is betMood Wings,� a butterfly-shaped set of wires attached to a sensor and worn on a wristband, beat at ter,” Feaver said. different rates depending on the wearer�s stress level

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Senior is more than just a sharpshooter by Amrith Ramkumar THE CHRONICLE

Tricia Liston is Duke’s leading scorer this season, but if not for some extra recruiting work by head coach Joanne P. McCallie, the senior sharpshooter would not have even become a Blue Devil “I didn’t find her until very late,” McCallie said. “So what happened was my assistants were out recruiting, and I was following that lead like I always do. I went to Augusta, Ga. where there’s a big Nike tournament. I happened to see [Tricia] for the first time, which was the end of July heading into her senior year. I thought she was just fantastic—I was just adamant [about recruiting her].” Luckily for the Blue Devils and for Liston—the 46th-ranked player in her high school class of 2010 by Blue Star Report and 33rd-ranked by ESPN HoopGurlz—McCallie made her find just in the nick of time. “It was close to the time when I was trying to wrap up the recruiting process,” Liston said. “[McCallie] just called me one day and I think I was asleep and got a voice message. I was just so excited because I had always dreamed about coming to a school like Duke. It was just like a dream come true.” Liston has capitalized on her opportunity by becoming arguably the greatest outside shooter in program history. She needs just 13 more treys to break

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Have you ever had something you just had to have? You have an iPhone already, but you just had to buy the new model. You have some cute shoes, but you just had to have that pair of heels for rush. You have 10 different versions of Madden, but this new one, well, IT’S THE BEST ONE YET! Yes, we’ve all had these insatiable cravings for new things; however, some people yearn for items that are a little more expensive than others. Take just this past weekend, when the jersey worn by former Duke basketball great Christian Laettner when he made “The Shot” against Kentucky in the 1992 NCAA tournament was sold for a cool $119,500. Although Laettner’s jersey was the most high profile item, it was Jackie Robinson’s 1947 Rookie of the Year Award that was sold for the most money, raking in $401,968. This, of course, pales in comparison to items such as Babe Ruth’s 1920 New York Yankees jersey ($4.4 million) and Mark McGwire’s 70th home run ball ($3 million). Bottom line, people pay some serious money just to have a bit of history placed in their home. That got me thinking, if I had the disposable income necessary to buy Duke basketball paraphernalia, what would I buy?

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Already Duke’s top three-point shooter, Tricia Liston has stepped it up in her senior year to lead the team in scoring and post a career-high rebounding clip. Abby Waner’s all-time career mark of 222 3-pointers made and will also likely hold the record for highest career 3-point percentage—Liston has knocked down threes at a 45.5 percent clip for her career. Liston also set the record for the most 3-pointers made in a single season with 80 last year—one that she is on pace break again this season—and has shot 87 percent from the free throw line for her career. The River Forest, Ill. native credits her success as a shooter to the habits

she built growing up. “From a young age, I was shooting the right way,” Liston said. “I had the right form, which my dad had taught me, and I was always going to my older sister’s practices since he coached them. That repetition and the practice over the years helped me.” Although Liston’s legacy will primarily be one of an assassin from beyond the arc, she has added new dimensions to See W. BASKETBALL, page 9

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Cutcliffe elected to AFCA Board of Trustees by Daniel Carp THE CHRONICLE

Duke head coach David Cutcliffe has been elected to the Board of Trustees for the American Football Coaches Association, the organization announced Tuesday. The announcement came less than 24 hours after Cutcliffe was named the AFCA’s Coach of the Year at its national convention in Indianapolis. “I am deeply humbled to be asked to serve the AFCA in this capacity for a second time,” Cutcliffe said in a press release. “The AFCA is one of the true pillars of this incredible game we call college football, and it will be an honor to help guide our peers into the future. I

look forward to the opportunity to work alongside Grant Teaff and the other members of this group to help give back to the sport which has obviously been such a significant part of my life.” Founded in 1922, the AFCA helps dictate policy and direction for more than 11,000 football coaches across all levels of competition. Among the organization’s founders was John Heisman, for whom the Heisman Trophy is named. Cutcliffe was one of three new members elected to the board this year. The others were Liberty head coach Turner Gill and Southern Illinois head coach Dale Lennon.

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basketball player growing up and he still may be my favorite Blue Devil. There’s the dominant play on the court, where he averaged roughly 20 points per game and made a Division I-record 457 3-pointers over the course of his career. But it was how Redick carried himself that made him one of the most hated players in Duke history. If I had to pick one picture that really encapsulates Redick’s illustrious career, I’d have to go with this one—J.J.’s cockiest pose as a Blue Devil. That is, unless anyone has a Michael Vick-esque middle finger picture at UNC or Maryland; that signed picture would be priceless. Price: $20,000

Brian Zoubek’s beard-growing ability—Gentlemen, I don’t know about you, but I wish I could grow a beard as magnificent as Brian Zoubek’s. Is it the best-looking beard in Duke basketball history? No. Josh Hairston’s beard takes the crown in that category. But Zoubeard represented so many things. The triumph of playing a truly memorable 2010 NCAA Tournament. The scruffiness of a worker, in Zoubek’s case crashing the boards. In many ways, Zoubek’s fully grown beard was as much of a story during the NCAA tourney than the team itself. So maybe this is infeasible, but that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t spend a lot of money on it. Zoubek’s pastry business may have fell through, but his untamed beard will live on forever. Price: $10,000

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ing live, and it had everything. Dockery nailed a half-court shot at the buzzer, prompting students to actually storm the court in Cameron Indoor. There are too many court stormings these days, but this moment warranted it. Dockery’s heave, to this day, is one of my favorite Duke basketball moments. Price: $15,000 Fine Art from —Many Kyle Singler—Many recognize Kyle Singler as the basketball star who guided Duke to a national championship in 2010. Others see only a vampire-like complexion that surely scared opponents and gave him an extra foot of space to work with on his silky jumper. What made Singler

unique in college, though, was his artsy side. Singler has painted murals, designed Duke men’s basketball banners, and everything in between. Why waste my money on Monet or Manet when I could have a Singler hanging above my fireplace at home? Eloquent, quaint, it will speak to me. Price: Priceless Laettner’s jumper was one of the greatest moments in sports history, so it’s no surprise that fans jumped on the chance to purchase the jersey. But with so many wonderful pieces that could also go up for auction, why stop there? Keep on buying everyone, or J.J. may have something to say about it.

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early rising When students from the Class of 2018 begin to fill campus next fall, one out of every two will have applied and been admitted through the early decision process. While this is not unprecedented for the University—44 percent of this year’s freshman class applied ED—it is indicative of a trend that has resulted in an almost 20 percent increase in the number of Duke students admitted early over the past decade. The increase in ED admits has been accompanied by an even more substantial increase in the number of ED applicants, driving down the early acceptance rate to 25 percent and paralleling trends at schools like Northwestern, Cornell and Stanford. What is driving these changes? For one, it is increasingly difficult to gain admission to elite universities; regular decision admission rates of many top ten universities often stay under 10 percent. Duke also privileges early applicants. According to Duke’s Undergraduate Admissions website, the early admission rate for the Class of 2017 was 20 percent greater than the regular admission rate, giving risk-averse applicants an incentive to hedge their bets by applying early. We can expect the ED applicant pool to keep increasing as long as the admission rate

differential remains sufficiently large. Why does Duke privilege its early applicants? Official University materials explicitly market the high ED acceptance rate, indicating that the University values applicants who strongly desire to attend Duke. Prioritizing early applicants

Editorial may also help the university in official rankings. Increasing the percentage of students admitted through ED depresses overall acceptance rates and boosts yield, both important factors in determining how Duke ranks against peer institutions. Over time, ascendance in the rankings promises to improve applicant quality. Regardless of whether or not rising ED admission rates reflect a deliberate strategy, the trend has important consequences. First, the ED applicant pool is racially less diverse than the overall student body. According to Director of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag, 37 percent of this year’s ED admits were students of color—12 percentage points lower than the current student body’s percentage of non-white students.

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ike many others, this immigration story begins with a moment of chance. My grandfather came to this country at an early age and, upon disembarking from Ellis Island, found a nickel on the streets of New York City. It was a far cry from the promised pavements of gold hawked by the promotional

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Second, it is likely that, on average, ED applicants are better off financially than regular applicants, although this data is not readily available. Students who apply early do not get to compare financial aid packages across schools, meaning that most thoughtful applicants will apply early only if they are confident in their ability to pay. Moreover, detailed knowledge of the ED process accompanies access to well-trained college counselors, often a privilege of the affluent. Given the potential impact for fairness and diversity, it is important that the University account for both of these issues in its admissions strategy. Third, applicant quality may also vary between early and regular decision pools. Applicants interested in Duke, but not convinced of their ability to gain admission through the regular decision process, have an incentive to apply early. From this, we can infer that average applicant quality might be slightly lower in the ED pool. Duke might be willing to weather these effects in order to climb the rankings. But the student body is one of the University’s most valuable assets, and Duke should take pains to ensure its admissions policy prioritizes fairness, diversity and applicant quality.

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sellers of tickets to America, but it was something. This poor Polish boy, whose family fled the discrimination and persecution of the pogroms of Europe, had much to look forward to in America. It was a land that afforded much more hope than the old one. My grandfather learned English, served during World War II and rose to become a vice president of one of the largest telecommunication companies in the nation. He did all of this without a college degree. This story is a familiar one to an immigrant nation such as ours, and I’m proud to be a part of it. It’s an integral part of my family’s identity and our claim to the American experience. Despite this rich tradition, it is becoming harder and harder for immigrants in this country to create a similar story for themselves. The failure of immigration reform to pass the House last summer highlights a crisis in governance that threatens to strangle the engines of innovations America depends on. The statistics are astounding. With over 52 percent of Silicon Valley start-ups founded by immigrants and an amazing percentage of patents filed at high tech companies originating from people born outside the United States, the value of encouraging immigration should be readily apparent. Innovation is driven by new ideas and those who come from different cultures are readily contributing them. The information economy from which the United States disproportionately prospers is, in part, a product of non-native contributions. This isn’t a recent phenomenon. The most successful civilizations in history have been those that most efficiently incorporated people from outside of their own borders. Rome, during the Republic and afterwards, succeeded magnificently in doing this and made a lasting impression on Western Civilization. People from across the Mediterranean were able to become Roman citizens and contribute to the betterment of society. American success has also been built on

a similar model. Yet, increasingly, it is becoming harder and harder for those who are readily capable of making a contribution to stay in America. Foreign born nationals who receive a permit to attend university in the United States face incredible restrictions upon their graduation. These restrictions make staying in the United States exceedingly difficult. The options available to these students boil down to four choices: 1. Going for more schooling, 2. Applying for an Optional Training Program (which only extends the length of stay for one year), 3. Applying for an H-1B non-immigrant visa with the sponsorship of an employer (However there are only 65,000 H-1B visas available per fiscal year. This limitation exists despite the fact that well over 124,000 persons applied for the program in 2013.), or 4. Return to their country of origin. The cap on H-1B visas seems particularly strange considering that these students have the sponsorship of employers willing to hire them. Our system is now set up in such a way that those who can and want to work in the United States are being turned away. These are people who would be paying taxes and contributing to the wellbeing of society, and we are willing to place a limit on the number that are allowed to stay. This is ridiculous. While lobbying for immigration reform over the summer, the Republican Senator for Florida, Marco Rubio told the U.S Chamber of Commerce, “We are graduating kids with these degrees and these skill sets. We are then forcing them to leave the country and the jobs are following them over there.” This is a self-imposed brain drain. There is no logical reason that these students who have spent the last four, or however many, years learning at an American university need to take these skills and potential innovations to another country. If they want to stay and work, they should be able too. That’s the promise of America and we should work to fulfill it. As a summer intern for my Senator’s regional office in San Diego over the summer, I fielded a number of calls regarding immigration. Since it’s near the border, emotions run high and sometimes the worst in people can come out. It’s a hot button issue, to say the least, but everyone would better of remembering that nearly all of us originally came from somewhere else. We all have an immigration story and its part of what makes this country exceptional. Colin Scott is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Wednesday.

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oday I write to y’all from my couch, where I’m trying to overcome what might be the worst hangover of my life. Despite the five Advil I chased with two gallons of water and Pedialyte, my head is pounding, and I can’t fully open my eyes. It’s 5:00 p.m. and I just ate breakfast. I feel like a useless blob of wasted potential and liver damage. Ughhhhh.

Chelsea Sawicki Namaste y’all My hellish hangovers are a fairly new occurrence. Freshman year, I could guzzle a bag of Franzia and go jogging the next morning. Now, two glasses of fancy(er) wine at dinner, and I want to wear my Snuggie to class the next day. Sadly, my morning-after-boozing appearance has also worsened. I like to think that my 18-year-old self woke up looking like Gwyneth (or maybe her third cousin), whereas, nowadays, I resemble Ke$ha—with the flu and no glitter. Why is this happening to me? I quit the Franzia freshman fall—shall I call this the Franzia paradox, then? Actually, no. After some desperate Googling and too much time reading Women’s Health, I made a startling discovery: I am aging! My liver is loosing efficiency, my metabolism is slowing down, and, eventually, I will die. Ahh!!! I will never be as young as I once was. Oh my God. My 22nd birthday is rapidly approaching—it’s all downhill from here, right!? F---. I just bought a case of beer and wasn’t even ID’d. I might as well go buy some anti-wrinkle cream and a pair of mom jeans. Quarter-life crisis, anyone? The more I think about it, the more I realize that I’ve been ignoring my impending adulthood for a while now. Maybe it’s because, most of the time, I still feel like a kid. I’m nearing the big two-two and live in a real apartment (with my own dishwasher and laundry room), but I’ve been known to confuse the dishwashing soap and laundry detergent and usually forget to pay my electric bill. I’ve been trying to make “wrinkledchic” a thing (I don’t own an iron), still love my gummy vitamins and high-five myself when I can parallel park in under ten minutes. Now that I’m nearing the dreadful finish line that is my May graduation, does this mean my behavior should start to reflect my liver’s efficiency? Do I need to worry about my cholesterol? When must I stop wearing leggings as

pants? Or drinking alcohol that comes in a box? Dear Daddy Duke, these are my suggestions for the curriculum. But, like the embarrassing habits of my earlier years (hello, gel pen obsession and windbreaker pants), I hope to seamlessly outgrow the characteristics that mark me as a mildly irresponsible Dukie. After all, I’ve made it this far unscathed, right? My family, however, isn’t always pleased with my blasé attitude towards adulthood. This became especially apparent during my last Christmas dinner—perhaps because I spiked the eggnog? While my grandmother sobbed tears of joy upon hearing about my little brother’s girlfriend, my perpetual singleness horrifies her. “Chelsea, I am getting old, and I wish to see you happy before I die. We Sawicki women are a fertile bunch, and I just want to live to meet my great grandchildren! Is that too much to ask? I’m worried you are wasting your time. Will you finally let me set you up with a nice Catholic boy from my church?” While the thought of birthing a brood of Catholic babies terrifies me more than death itself, my grandmother is a wise, caring woman who wants what’s best for me. Am I really wasting my most fertile years? (Ok. lolz, no way.) But does she really not think I’m happy? Hidden beneath her matchmaking desires and interest in my egg count, Grandma’s true intentions suddenly become clear. She wants me to know that thankfully, it’s not all downhill from here. Just as my last few years have brought forth various rites of passage (ahem boys, booze and buffoonery), I’m certainly not done having firsts. My inexperience and ignorance are the only reasons my coming firsts (ahem men, marriage, menopause) seem so daunting. Was I nervous the first time I got drunk? Drove a car? Had sex? Of course! Thankfully, time and experience helped me figure it all out and enjoy it. Let’s hope I’m saying the same about menopause when the time comes?! With that, I’ve decided to treat my final semester as not the end of my raucous youth (come on now, that would be depressing), but, rather, as a transitional period. Ok, so I really need to buy an iron and should probably stop wearing leggings as pants. But does this mean I should start ironing my pillowcases and wearing pantsuits? No way. I’ve got four months left in this glorious Gothic Wonderland, and I am going to enjoy it.

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Online Only Today: “The ASA boycott of Israel is hypocritical and wrong” by Aviv Canaani “A few weeks ago, the members of the American Studies Association have voted in favor

of boycotting Israel. In their words, they refuse “to enter into formal collaborations with Israeli academic institutions, or with scholars who are expressly serving as representatives or ambassadors of those institutions (such as deans, rectors, presidents and others), or on behalf of the Israeli government, until Israel ceases to violate human rights and international law. Many American universities vocally opposed this boycott. The Executive Committee of the Association of American Universities, which includes Duke President Richard Brodhead, issued a statement that urged “American scholars and scholars around the world who believe in academic freedom to oppose this and other such academic boycotts.” Nevertheless, one cannot ignore this growing phenomenon, which started a few years back in the United Kingdom, and quickly expanded to the United States, Canada, Australia and many other countries.”

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The lives we write

n the first night of winter break, I was rummaging through a stack of mail on the counter. At the bottom of the pile, I found a slim envelope addressed to me from my grandmother. Ever since I was a little girl, my grandmother would send me newspaper clippings—articles flooded with the latest happenings in the figure skating world and, as of late, ones pertaining to feminism and/ or Gloria Steinem due to my recent summer stint writing for Ms. magazine in Los Angeles. The letter was postmarked on Nov. 13, 2013. It was now well into December. “PopPop and I are ‘hanging in,’” she wrote near the end. I paused. The

Danielle Nelson such is life pairing of “PopPop and I” at first sounded so normal, but something felt off. The night after my grandmother wrote that letter, my grandfather passed away in his sleep. And reading it now, nearly a month later, was like being punched square in the gut. I felt numb just knowing that this letter was the last time I would ever read of my grandfather in the present tense and that I would never get a note like that ever again. It was the same numbness that I felt sitting in a dimly lit room writing my grandfather’s obituary with my mother and then the following afternoon at the gravesite memorial. I thought that there was a sort of finality to this particular type of numbness until that sunken, nauseated feeling settled once again in the pit of my stomach. Writing my grandfather’s obituary was one of the most difficult things I’ve ever had to do. The emotions were raw. I felt shocked and confused. He had been sick for such a long time and, though I had been readily preparing myself over the years, I couldn’t quite grasp the permanence of loss. An obituary is the final testament to a life, the last chapter. But this story felt foreign and unfamiliar. These were the facts of a person’s life that I hardly had the time to know, and a narrative centered more on the hard-fast professional life— what my grandfather did, rather than who he was. I never knew my grandfather, at least not the version of his life that I wrote in the obituary. My memory is comprised of the little moments that slip from the terms of how we talk about a life—all the afternoons my grandparents spent in the skating rink watching me practice, the surprise visits en route from Florida to the New Jersey shore, walking to get the paper in the morning, the stories he told me right before bed as a 6-year-old with slick wet braids and a toothless grin. This is the story that doesn’t quite make it onto the page or fit in a narrative jam-packed with professional accomplishments and a briefly outlined biography. It seems as if there is no room to talk about these sorts of stories, which perhaps is another way to say, “this is not how we should live our lives.” We’re told that there is more to life than work and building a career, but it is in fact these very things from which we ultimately measure our own sense of accomplishment and self-fulfillment. It is how we designate ourselves from one another, who is thriving and who is failing, who is worthy of distinction and who is ordinary. I don’t have the facts of my life sketched out. I don’t know what this supposed source of “purpose” is or what it should be. I don’t have a job lined up for next year. I haven’t “figured it out” in any way, shape or form, and I guess this fact alone makes the question of what merits a life all the more pressing. As a second semester senior, I do feel a certain urgency to script my life and configure the facts of who I am through what I want to do. I want to know what a good dynamic life entails. I want to know what to work for. I want to know this particular future, and, more importantly, I want to know how to get there. But, as a college student, I can’t help but also want to just soak in these last few months of freedom—to not have to define myself as anything other than an undergraduate and having that be enough. Because even though I want to begin charting out my “life,” I know that living this life is not all there is to life. I know that a life exists outside of bullet points of credentials and accolades. What worries me is that I’ll get so caught up in what I do that I’ll forget the importance of who I am. I’m worried because if I have to choose one over the other, I know what I might choose. And the danger is, before long maybe there won’t be any difference between them at all. Danielle Nelson is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Wednesday.

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percent of short-term suspensions in the state, according to the north Carolina Bar Association. The north Carolina Department of Public instruction reported that for every 10 male black students enrolled, 5.22 were suspended, and for every 10 male American indian students enrolled, 4.28 were suspended. The national Center for education Statistics found that nationally in 2007, approximately 43 percent of black students, 22 percent of hispanic, 16 percent of white, 14 percent of American indian and 11 percent of Asian students in sixth through twelveth grades had ever been suspended or expelled. in 2013, Durham Public Schools received a series of complaints alleging that the schools punished black students and students with disabilities at higher rates than their peers. Advocates for Children’s Services of legal Aid of north Carolina and Center for Civil rights remedies at the Civil rights Project of the Uni-

versity of California, los Angeles filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of education’s office for Civil rights against Durham Public Schools last year. The complaint revealed that black students were four times as likely to be suspended as white students and that among black students with disabilities, over 37 percent were suspended at some point. “The office for Civil rights is still investigating Durham Public Schools,” said Peggy nicholson, an attorney for ACS. “They haven’t reached any resolution with the federal government that will end the investigation. hopefully, there will be additional steps taken by the community to address the issue.” Some education experts have praised the new guidelines as a step toward reducing suspension rates and for initiating a long-due national conversation. “i think they set a bar,” said Barbara Jentleson, assistant professor of the practice of education. “There’s a very important conversation to be happening, and i’m hoping it’ll lead to the development of more supportive practices for our students.”

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Jentleson spoke from her own experience as a former principal of an alternative school in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. She said that black and minority students were frequently excluded from classrooms for misbehavior, but that the majority of cases involved minor infringements that were often negotiable. “i’ve probably only had a few non-negotiable [situations],” Jentleson said. “Certainly, bringing a weapon, drug dealing—those are my non-negotiable cases. everything else, i wanted to have a range of responses depending on the child.” Jentleson encouraged school administrators to address as many discipline issues within school walls as possible. “if a student is not in school, you can’t really address what is going on with him,” Jentleson said. “You’ve got to minimize the amount of out-of-school time. For example, if a student is fighting in school, it’s important first of all to find out why they’re fighting and secondly, help them develop new social skills to deal with that. There’s a great deal of research to say it’s possible.” natalie Beyer, a Durham Board of education member, said that Durham Public Schools are currently working to address issues with discipline and hopes that the release of new guidelines will bring positive change. But she noted that the guidelines are an indication of a national phenomenon, not just a local one. “The Board of education and our administration acknowledges that this is true, and that anybody who looks at the data can see that the data is lopsided,” said heidi Carter, Durham Board of education chair. “This situation is not unique to Durham, and that’s why the federal government has released the guidelines. Durham Public Schools have been working to reduce suspension rate in general for some time now.” The Durham Board of education hosted a series of well-attended community conversations following the complaint, Carter said. She added that part of the responsibility resides with the Durham community to address their children’s problems outside of school. “We serve a high minority and poverty student body,” Carter said. “i do think our community needs to do a better job of addressing factors that lead to suspension.” She added that Durham Public Schools currently employ graduated school discipline policies, which ensure that the severity of punishments correspond appropriately to the type of misconduct. Principals are expected to look at mitigating and aggravating circumstances and apply punishment accordingly, Carter said. Jane Wettach, clinical professor of law and director of the Children’s law Clinic, noted that students generally were spending far too many days in suspension and suggested that racial discrimination may unintentionally play a role. “it’s hard to know, but there could be some discrimination going on, where school administrators, whether consciously or unconsciously, tend to impose school discipline on African-American students more regularly,” Wettach said. “There have been several studies that suggest there is some bias, and that students of color tend to be disciplined more severely.” Although Durham Public Schools have not yet implemented policies directly in response to the new guidelines, officials are hopeful that the issue of school discipline will receive more attention and resources in the future. “We’re always looking for continuous improvement in that area,” Beyer said.

guantanaMo from page 2 there and they are often reassigned after their completing their detail of only a couple of years.” McQuade said. “We’re in our eighth year here.” Christopher Pilch, a third year law student in the class, said the program helps to strengthen Duke law’s national security and international law programs by giving students hands-on experience dealing with current legal issues. Several students in the class intend to work for the Judge Advocate General’s Corps in one of the service branches once they graduate, he said. When asked about potential criticism the clinic might receive for working on the defense of alleged high-level terrorists, Morris explained that the work they do is much more about the process than the individuals. “our system is one in which the government is required to prove its case and the defense is entitled to a full and adequate representation,” Morris said. “if we want to maintain our system of government, it’s crucial that we do it in this context.”